O’Neill calls for cool heads

EURO 2016 QUALIFIER:

We’ve had it all before a ball has even been kicked: Inflammatory comment, raging anticipation, wild speculation, inspired comedy and some rather less than funny gags — and that was just the Twittersphere erupting after Wednesday’s drama at the team hotel in Dublin.

If the action on the pitch in Celtic Park is only half as lively tonight, then it will go a long way towards meeting former Scotland manager Craig Brown’s prediction that this could be “one of the all-time classic international matches”.